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Mark Gatiss: "I don't understand the antipathy towards Keir Starmer" The actor – currently starring in a play lampooning fascism – argues that the PM is doing a good job, but from the press he gets "you'd think he was Vlad the Impaler". Listen on the New Society podcast.

I believe there is a fetishization aspect of these western leftist human safari tours to authoritarian regimes that should not be overlooked. From Venezuela, Iran to now Cuba, western leftists enter these spaces in a privileged bubble, often staying in luxury hotels while being chauffeured around by government minders who only show the best of the country and introduce them to locals who perform an existence the regime wants to showcase. To the western leftist, this only reinforces their already held ideological fantasies of what an “anti-Western or anti-imperialist” utopia is supposed to be, while simultaneously erasing the reality of everyday repression and hardship (something that has been well documented for years). This trip has nothing to do with solidarity or standing with the oppressed, it is simply leftist fantasy play.

EXCLUSIVE: Education campaigner and headteacher Katherine Birbalsingh, known as 'Britain's Strictest Headteacher' has appeared on two far right podcasts.